firlot
(Scotland) A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
'; and in forms fearlot w.Yks.* ; furladCai.' [fl'rlat, fa'lat.] 1. A measure of capacity for corn, &c., of varying quantity ; a quarter of a ' boll ' ; a large quantity.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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(Scotland) A measure of capacity, once used for corn etc, equal to four pecks.
[T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]
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